Kinect for Xbox 360 support is coming to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Available
for free as a title update slated for release this month, Skyrim Kinect for Xbox
360 Support will feature more than 200 Voice Commands... including the game's
dragon shouts.

I hope developers are going to alter the way they look at the Kinect. It is a failure at what it was intended to do. To me motion controls are gimmicky, waggling or flailing to do an action that just pushing a button does not make gameplay better.

But voice activated menus? Why is this better than button pushing? because a controller operated menus are clunky. you have to navigate through menus and sub menu. By just using voice controls you can go right to the menu, without changing your controller mindset. It is more fluid.

The kinect as a support system for enhancing games could usher in a true next generation.

So voice recognition... which means... If you have a mic on your computer there is no good god damn reason why this shouldn't come to PC as well.

Except that Skyrim isn't handling the voice recognition - that's the xbox+kinect. It just passes that as input to Skyrim. You'd have to be running voice recognition software on your computer separately from the game, and those two would have to be capable of communicating.

But why can't the XB headset do that? kinect is crap..totally useless.

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Originally Posted by Sloth

But voice activated menus? Why is this better than button pushing? because a controller operated menus are clunky. you have to navigate through menus and sub menu. By just using voice controls you can go right to the menu, without changing your controller mindset. It is more fluid.

The kinect as a support system for enhancing games could usher in a true next generation.

You can do that today with things like VR Commander for any game on the PC. With experience I can tell you, they have way way too many commands. It's nice for a good handful of voice commands. I'll be amazed if it's as precise as they show. The guy also has perfect dictation.